Another Great Year with BP3

2016 was good to BP3, and I have a lot to be thankful for as a result. BPM software and BPM engines are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and foundational to the IT landscape. As I look forward, the future for BP3 and for BPM is more exciting than ever – but let’s take one blog post to look back at 2016 and enjoy it for a moment.

We started the year by streamlining or organization at the top, as Lance handed the CEO baton to me and took over responsibilities for raising an investment round and running our board. Lance led our company to over $19M in revenue, starting from zero when we first incorporated in a coffee shop. You don’t fill shoes like those, you just try to step in, keep the momentum going, and be the best you can be. It’s the biggest honor of my professional life to be the CEO and leader of this company in 2016 and beyond.

Our culture was a key asset in the acquisition of Teknovare – which expanded our ODM/Rules practice in North America; and of Futurum – which expanded our presence in Europe by bringing us into Denmark! Neither company would have come to BP3 without our compelling culture – and we couldn’t have successfully integrated these great people without their own strong cultures matching well with ours. It was really great to see our teams working this through over the course of the year!

We once again set a new high water mark for processes delivered into production in 2016. (and the corresponding new records in flights and hotel nights!).

We had our biggest internship program to-date – there are many BPM services companies now that are smaller than our internship program – and we hired some amazing college graduates as part of our graduate program.

There were times this year when we were attending three conferences at once.

We also named two new outside directors to our board, which will have more to say about in 2017.

We also had great SWAG in 2016. We’ll try to keep it up in 2017!

Most importantly, we’re pledging to stick to our core value propositions: value for our customers, a relentless focus on self-improvement, and innovating new ways to create value for our customers in 2017!

We have such an amazing team to take us forward into 2017 – I’m lucky to be here for this. And if you’re our customer, you’re fortunate to be working with this team – this is the best team in the BPM business, and you won’t regret it for a moment.